“The term “Haptic” means relating or pleasant to the sense of touch.” said Kenya Hara in the second chapter of his book “Designing design”. To put it into context, his concern was that modern technology was focused more on the incorporation of more function and universal ergonomics than the actual sensory feel of the product …

This post is about the first topic of the book “Designing Design”, by Kenya Hara. Titled Re-Design, it seeks to examine what design is, and why it has become boring so as to offer a solution to how we can “Re-Design”. Slowly, but surely through the chapter, Hara exposes our fixations on “should-bes”, and even the …